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Friday, May 29, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Friday morning edition

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The Department of Land and Natural Resources will close the Mauna Kea Forest Reserve June 2 and 3 to conduct animal control activities, spec...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Thursday morning edition

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State programs to repopulate Hawaiian Waters with fish and create more artificial reefs are on the budget chopping block Lawmakers are expec...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Wednesday morning edition

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When DLNR Director Laura Thielen asked the state Legis-lature for $240 million in bond money to fix Hawai'i's aging state parks and ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Tuesday morning edition

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A long-awaited environmental report on the world's largest optical/infrared telescope, planned for the summit of Mauna Kea, says the ove...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Native Americans, Native Hawaiians together

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Wailoa River State Park in Hilo was the scene this weekend for the 4th annual Inter-Tribal Pow Wow. On bright green grass beneath swaying pa...

Top Hawaii Headlines: Monday morning edition

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Big Island losing coqui frog war. War on invasive species pau as money dries up, frog numbers explode. The Marine Option Program and degrees...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Friday morning edition

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If life is a beach, Hanalei Bay must be heaven. This remote, two-mile crescent-shaped beach on Kauai where the emerald mountains meet the sp...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Thursday morning edition

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Hawai'i drivers are third-worst in the nation when it comes to their know-ledg e of basic road rules, according to a survey. Federal wea...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Wednesday morning edition

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The state appears to be making progress in its push to address the homeless crisis, according to a new homeless point-in-time count, which e...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Tuesday morning edition

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A peacock was viciously beaten to death this weekend in Makaha. The accused animal killer said the bird's constant squawking drove her t...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Monday morning edition

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In addition to marketing cam- paigns supporting local ag- riculture, the Depart- ment of Agri- culture is beginning to designate the long-aw...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Friday morning edition

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The Health Department may increase the Hawaii beverage container deposit by a half cent, which could result in retailers rounding up a whole...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Thursday morning edition

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The state Supreme Court yesterday denied a request by the Lingle administration and state House and Senate leaders to reconsider a March rul...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Lawmakers to be schooled on sharks

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Shark experts will be schooling lawmakers Thursday about shark feeding in relation to commercial tours. The information briefing, conducted ...

Top Hawaii Headlines: Wednesday morning edition

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Pipe and cigar smokers along with those who buy snuff and chewing tobacco in Hawaii are getting a four-month, $400,000 state tobacco tax hol...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Tuesday morning edition

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The newest member of the Hawaii Supreme Court said he had been determined to follow a career in public service ever since he took a post-col...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Bike to Work Week kicks off in Hawaii

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Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi kicked off Bike to Work Week today with a bicycle ride across Hilo ending at the county government owned Au...
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Top Hawaii Headlines: Monday morning edition

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Gov. Linda Lingle is asking for your input on the measures that do everything from dictate street planning to make include pathways for bicy...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Friday morning edition

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On a day rich in political theater, Gov. Linda Lingle stood before several hundred people in the state Capitol and vetoed tax increases she ...
Thursday, May 7, 2009

Top Hawaii Headlines: Thursday morning edition

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Hawaii continues to have the lowest rate of gun-related deaths in the nation, which state officials and a national organization attribute to...
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Nancy Cook Lauer has 30-plus years experience as a journalist, winning national and state awards for newspapers in Florida and Hawaii. She publishes a daily state government news aggregate and commentary blog, All Hawaii News. Vice President of the Hawaii SPJ chapter as well as Secretary of the Big Island Press Club, Lauer has a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology, summa cum laude, from Old Dominion University. She earned her reporting chops covering the 2000 Bush v. Gore presidential election at Florida's ground zero and was recently honored with a Torch of Light award and a Hawaii state Senate commendation for uncovering questionable spending practices in local government.
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